he killed daniel pearl not because of anything daniel pearl said or wrote or even thought. he did it to change it affect his reputation inside al qaeda. that gives us a small window into the man and our hopes to open other windows as i talk today. inside al qaeda it is not as monolithic as you might imagine. i wrote the book "mastermind" to answer three questions. the old saying that you write a book when you spend a couple years studying something and want to teach yourself something. the three question the war on terror way john, dog to be in the back of my mind. these were the questions. how does an educated, successful person, educated in america in western universities become a remorseless killer? of our society and its own? what is that pattern of transformation? what are the choices that person makes to become a terrorist? how does that happen? secondly i wanted to know how does al qaeda function on the inside? what is it like to work for al qaeda? what are the internal dynamics? and third, what techniques in the war on terror work and don't work? obviously this lead

organization and khalid sheikh muhammed common not only the man we have reason to believe be headed daniel pearl, from the "wall street journal" journal", but also claim to be the architect of 9/11 killing 3,000 americans. n another key point* needed to be made is the techniquesiq that we use were all previously used on american military personnel. all use in training for our own special less.t there was no technique that had not been used on our owna troops first just to give you an idea if we were quote torturing at." the way the programorke worked is the agency came in, primarily a george tenet as the director of thege cia talk to me and a couple of, other people and you wanted to know how far they could:in terms of the interrogation room. and you needed to sign-offs'. one was the one of the president and second, where it is the line you cannot cross. we sought and obtained both of those. but everybody who was a member of the and as say was informed of the essence of the program. but to agree this is necessary and worth while. the key people at the justice department like john who has spent s

khalid sheikh mohammed primarily the man hmong other thins responsible probably for the murder of daniel pearleet journal" reporter who was beheaded. and claimed himself and there's no reason to doubt it, that he was the man behind 9/11. he killed 3,000 americans on that day. he was subjected to enhanced interrogationtechniques. but it was done only after the justice department signed off on it. after the director of the cia approved the particular program is applied to khalid sheikh mohammed and the president signed off on the policy, national security council signed off and the justice department handed down a ruling saying this was not torture. we were very careful not to get into a situation where there was a danger that some americans are going to be arrested on the street and subjected to that kind of treatment. >> greta: you don't worry in the next administration or the next 20 years or something there is going to be some slippery slope that was accepted now will be used beyond that? >> i don't think so. our concern greta, was on the morning after 9/11. that when the president was very

and khalid sheikh mohammed was not only the man who we then had reason to believe correctly had daniel pearl, the reporter from "the wall street journal," but also had claimed credit for being the architect of 9/11. killed 3000 americans that morning. another key point that needs to be made was that the tech makes meeks that we used were all previously used on american military personnel. not all of them, but all of them that they have used in training for a lot of our own specialists in the military area. so there wasn't any technique that we used on any al qaeda individual that hadn't been used on our own troops first. just to give you some idea whether or not we were quote torturing the people we captured. the way to program -- the way the program works was the agency came in primarily george tenet and the director of the cia came in. he talked to me and talk to it couple of other people. basically he wanted to know how far they could go in terms of interrogation of the individuals that we captured. and, for two -- you really needed to sign off, one with the signoff by the president and s

and sheikh mohamed is the man who we correctly believed had beheaded daniel pearl, a reporter for the wall street journal, but also claimed credit for being the architect of 9/11 that killed 3,000 americans that morning. another key point that needs to be made was that the techniques that we used were all previously used on american military personnel. not all of them but all of them had been used in training for a lot of our own specialists, in the military area. so, there wasn't any technique that we used on any al qaeda individual that hadn't been used on our own troops first. just to give you some idea whether or not we were, quote, torturing the people we captured. the way the program worked was that the agency came in, primarily george tenet, the director of the cia, talked to me, talked to a couple of other people, basically he wanted to know how far they could go in terms of interrogations of these individuals that we captured. and really needed to kind of sign off. one was a signoff by the president, and secondly was the ruling from the justice department where that line was

committed that terrorist act as it turns out and what's in the book, they wound up kidnapping daniel pearl the wallet wall journal -- "wall street journal" reporter to killed him. i'm happy to hear about john o'neill and his son, suddenly the guy drops something else on me that was a little almost disingenuous. i didn't care. suddenly it had real poignancy so that's -- it was hundreds and hundreds of interviews and people saying gee, i don't know anything about the kobar towers and i said you know? why don't you go find ray mizlah, a supervisor in saudi arabia. he works at dupont. i called him up. hi, i'm murray weiss, i write for "the post" i'm doing a book on owe john o'neill. yeah, i'm the on-scene commander and he talked about it. he told me what happened. how the saudis stood in his way. how they wouldn't let them leave the ground. i know something about the kobar towers now. and we chitchatted, it was very insightful. now i'm making small talk. did you go to dupont after you were in the f.b.i.? no, no, what did you do? i went to the c.i.a. you went to the c.i.a.? what did you do at t

and khalid sheikh mohammed was moly the man who had reason to believe correctly had be headed daniel pearl, the reporter for "the wall street journal," but also had claimed credit for the 9/11 killed thousands of americans that morning. another key point that needs to be made is the techniques the we used rob roll previously used on american military personnel, not all of them, but all of them had been used in training for a lot of our own specialists in the military area. so there wasn't any technique that we used on any al qaeda individual that hadn't been used on our own troops first. just to give you some idea of whether or not we were, quote, torturing the people we captured. the way the program worked was the agency came come primarily georgetown and then still the director of the cia talked to me and a couple of other people who basically to know how far they could go in terms of the interrogation of the individuals that we captured, and they needed to kinds of sign-offs'. one was a sign off on the president and the second was from the justice department where that line was you coul

and khalid sheik mohammed was not only the man we had reason to believe that beheaded daniel pearl the reporter of the "wall had claimed l" but credit for being the architect of 9/11 that killed 3,000 americans that morning. another key point that needs to be made was that the techniques that we used were all previously used on american military personn personnel. not all of them, but all of them had been used in training for a lot of our own specialists in the military area. so, there wasn't any technique we used on any al qaeda individual that had not been university on our own troops first. just to give you some idea of whether or not we were "torturing" the people we captured. the way the program worked was the agency came in and talked to me and a couple of other people. basically he wanted to know how far they could go in terms of interrogation of these individuals that we captured. and he really needed two kind of signoffs. one was a signoff from the president and second was a ruling from the justice department as to where that line was that you couldn't cross. and we sought and

sheikh mohammed was not only the man who we then had reason to believe, correctly, had be headed daniel pearlr being the architect of 9/11 that killed 3000 americans that morning. another key point that needs to be made was that the techniques that we used were all previously used on american military personnel. not all of them, but all of them had been used in training for a lot about our own specialists in the military area. so there was not any technique that we used on any of private individuals that had not been used on our own troops first. just to give you some idea of whether or not we were! torturin -- whether or not we weren't torturing the people with captured. george tenant came in and talk to meet and talk to a couple of other people did basically, he wanted to know how far they could go in terms of interrogation of these individuals that recaptured. he needed two kinds of sign off. one was from the president and the second was the grueling from the justice department as to where that line was that you did not cross. we saw and obtained both of those. the president signed up to i

senator daniel inoueye and also the late senator montanagra who distinguished themselves in battle with the 100th battalion and 442nd infantry group in world war ii. after the surprise attack on pearl harbor, there was such an outrage and outcry for an all-out war against japan an days afterward, our president declared war against japan. out of this retaliation againsta pan, however, tens of thousands of americans were caught in the cross fire. these americans just happened to be of japanese ancestry. the federal government immediately implemented a policy whereby over 100,000 americans of japanese ancestry, men, women and children, were forced to live in what we call relocation camps but were more like prison or concentration camps. their lands, their homes, their properties were confiscated by the federal government without due process of law. . there was a time in our history where there was so much hi tread and bigotry against americans who just happened to be of japanese ancestry. despite all of these, mr. speaker, over 10,000 japanese americans volunteered to join the u.s. military. despite the fact that their wives, their parents, their brothers, and sisters are in prison be